Ventidius

III. i--- In this theatre in Parthia, continually cut in production, Ventidius refrains from gaining as good good a feat for Rome over a Parthians glory contingency be indifferent for Antony!

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III. i--- In this theatre in Parthia, continually cut in production, Ventidius refrains from gaining as good good a feat for Rome over a Parthians glory contingency be indifferent for Antony!

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For I gave Marcus Agrippa a free hand, while Antonius strapped Ventidius hand and foot.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

However, Ventidius was more used to riding than most, due to his career breeding mules.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

His hold over his adherents in Rome was slipping; Pollio had gone, and Ventidius, Sallust, all the great marshals except Ahenobarbus.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Ventidius hawked, spat at an imaginary Gaius Trebonius.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Gnaeus Asinius Pollio held Italian Gaul with seven legions; in Further Gaul across the Alps sat Quintus Fufius Calenus with eleven legions; while Publius Ventidius and his seven legions sat in coastal Liguria.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

What if, wondered Ventidius, he was to rake up every slinger the East had, and train them to lob their missiles at the horse archers?

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Another of a merchant, learned, wise otherwise and discreet, but out of a deep apprehension he had of a loss at seas, would not be persuaded but as [2292] Ventidius in the poet, he should die a beggar.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Pausing only to write a jubilant letter to Antony, Ventidius went on into Syria to find the Parthians absent.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007